Studying the origin, speciation and the variation in longevity across rockfish through whole genome and transcriptome sequencing. Origins and evolution of extreme lifespan in the North Pacific Rockfish

Pacific rockfish exhibit extreme variation in lifespan with some species amongst most long-lived vertebrates in existence. To dissect the evolution of lifespan and rockfish speciation we sequenced and de-novo assembled the genomes of 88 different rockfish species using long- and short-read technologies.